Re: http://lis311.com/post/197128966

KevinZ — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:48:24 -0000

Karma Police FTW!!!

Re: Oh Shit, The French Edition

KevinZ — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:26:25 -0000

Every time I drive through the city I wish that this were a real war. When I'm 83, I won't have the stories that my grandfather had to tell our grandchildren, all I will be able to say is that I did my part in an ongoing war against terrorism.

Re: http://lis311.com/post/191316082

KevinZ — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:33:53 -0000

1. Dooce's daughter has the coolest Chicken shirt :P
2. Super cute baby
3. I would like for Kay to have someone to play with...
4. Totally up to you if we go for another round, don't mind me, I just work here ;)

Re: http://lis311.com/post/167603293

KevinZ — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:08:11 -0000

Lol! This is very much like you. Finally you're realizing that you're gorgeous, and then you think everyone is hitting on you :P
j/k...

I love you, you're so silly sometimes!

Re: http://lis311.com/post/142194139

KevinZ — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:11:37 -0000

This brought my heart to a slow beat. I would love to meet Ben Stein and just tell him thank you for being so humble despite the World around you.

Re: G. Taylor McKnight

KevinZ — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:15:52 -0000

On bad days, I watch this, slam down a Nutrigrain Bar, and FEEL GREAT.

Re: Kayleigh's Third Law of Physics

KevinZ — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:06:19 -0000

Wow love. You really really need to start taking some sort of sleep aid so that you can wake up earlier in order to not have to deal with so much stuff all at once, kwim?

I recommend "Ribs" here's a video to help you get started:
http://video.aol.com/video-...

Re: What to Do in Austin

KevinZ — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:16:52 -0000

Zilker:
Hippie Watch
Play Disk Golf

Downtown:
Meet Leslie the most famous bum ever!

South congress:
Run the annual Congress Avenue Mile

West Austin:
Get married in the fall

North Austin:
Hike Brushy Creek off 183

Town Lake:
Feed the ducks/geese
Go Kayaking, canoeing, or rent a paddle boat!
Bat Watch under the Congress Avenue Bridge

Re: I am cursed.

KevinZ — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:41:22 -0000

I'm sorry love. I had a bad day too, it was like someone was playing one really long april fools joke on me. I wish I were there to help you through this rough patch, but remember that i'll be home soon, and having me back when you're used to me gone will make every thing I do that much better for you. Love you muchos.

Re: http://lis311.com/post/89764190

KevinZ — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:48:53 -0000

"I'm ridin on a dolphin, doing flips and s***,
the dolphin's splashin gettin everybody all wet..."

Re: http://lis311.com/post/89411114

KevinZ — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:19:47 -0000

I'll add two of my all time favorites on there:
**********Spoiler Alert**********

The Great Escape: Starring Steve McQueen
Upset by the soldiers and resources wasted in recapturing escaped Allied prisoners of war (POWs), the German High Command concentrates the most-determined and successful of these prisoners to a new, high-security prisoner of war camp that the commandant, Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger (Hannes Messemer), proclaims escape-proof.

On the day of arrival, some of the prisoners make on-the-spur escape attempts which are all foiled by the sharp-eyed German "ferrets" or guards. As the POWs settle into their new camp, the Gestapo and the SS deliver the one they consider to be the most dangerous POW of all: "Big X", Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett (Richard Attenborough), who is the prime organizer of most of the escape attempts made by Allied prisoners in Germany. Gestapo agent Kuhn (Hans Reiser) warns the Briton that he will be shot should he ever escape again. Locked up with "every escape artist in Germany", Bartlett immediately plans the greatest escape attempted — a tunnel system for exfiltrating 250 prisoners of war, the idea being to "confuse and harass the enemy" to the point that more troops and resources will be wasted on finding and detaining POWs rather than being used on the front line.

Teams of men are organized to survey, dig, hide soil, manufacture civilian clothing, forge documents, provide security and distractions, and procure contraband materials. The prisoners work on three escape tunnels ("Tom", "Dick", and "Harry") simultaneously. The worst of the work noise is covered from the men choir singing, and dirt from the tunnels is concealed in the men's trousers and emptied in the gardens. Flight Lieutenant Hendley (James Garner), an American of the RAF Eagle Squadron is "the scrounger" who finds ingeniously devious ways to get whatever the others need, from a camera to identity cards. Australian Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick (James Coburn), "the manufacturer", makes many of the tools they need, such as picks for digging and bellows for pumping breathable air into the tunnels. Flight Lieutenant Danny Velinski (Charles Bronson), a former Polish Air Force officer who fled to the RAF, is "the tunnel king", in charge of digging, despite being claustrophobic. Forgery is handled by Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe (Donald Pleasence), who becomes nearly blind from the highly intricate work by candlelight (progressive myopia); Hendley takes it upon himself to be Blythe's guide in the escape.

Meanwhile, USAAF Captain Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen), "The Cooler King", irritates the guards with frequent escapes and irreverent behaviour. His first escape attempt, conceived whilst in the cooler, is a short tunnel with RAF Flying Officer Archibald Ives (Angus Lennie); they are caught and returned to the cooler.

While the three Americans in camp (Hendley, Hilts, and Goff) are celebrating American Independence Day with the other (mainly British) POWs, the guards discover tunnel "Tom". The depressed Ives snaps, and in a futile attempt to escape, climbs the barbed wire fence in full view of the tower guards. Hilts notices and runs to stop him, but is too late as Ives is machine-gunned dead on the wire. The prisoners abandon the second tunnel and put all their efforts into completing the third.

Bartlett persuades Hilts to reconnoiter the immediate vicinity of the POW camp during one of his escapes, then allow his recapture, allowing the cartographers to create guide maps of the local area, including the nearest town and railway station.

The last part of the tunnel is completed on the night of the escape, but is found to be twenty feet short of the woods that would provide cover. Nevertheless, 76 men escape before one is finally spotted coming out of the tunnel.

After various attempts to reach neutral Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain, almost all of the escaped POWs are recaptured or killed: Hendley and Blythe steal a Luftwaffe trainer aeroplane, intending to fly over the Swiss border; the engine fails and they are forced to crash-land en route. Soldiers arrive at the crash site, shooting Blythe dead while Hendley surrenders. Flight Lieutenant Cavendish (Nigel Stock), having hitched a lift in a truck, is captured at a checkpoint, discovering another fellow POW, Haynes, captured in his German soldier disguise.

Bartlett and MacDonald (Gordon Jackson), are recognised at a railroad station by Gestapo agent Kuhn, but manage to slip away after fellow POW, Fleet Air Arm Lieutenant Commander Eric Ashley-Pitt (David McCallum), sacrifices himself by killing Kuhn and letting himself be chased and killed by soldiers, while running away from Bartlett and MacDonald. Bartlett and MacDonald attempt to board a bus in the town, but MacDonald is tricked into revealing his nationality with the same trick he had warned Haynes about before the escape—a German speaks to him in English and he responds in his native tongue. They both flee, but MacDonald is caught shortly afterwards; Bartlett escapes over rooftops. However, after Bartlett fools some pursuing Gestapo, he is recognised by his previous captors. Lastly, Hilts attempts to jump the barbed wire Swiss-German border fence with a stolen Wehrmacht motorcycle, but his petrol tank is hit and he becomes entangled in the wire.

Only three POWs evade capture and make it to safety. Velinski and Flight Lieutenant Willy Dickes (the tunnel kings) steal a rowboat and proceed downriver to the Baltic coast, where they successfully board a Swedish merchant ship. Sedgewick hides in a boxcar and makes it all the way to France, and while resting in a café the local Resistance stages a drive-by shooting of some German officers. After realising he is an Allied POW, the Resistance enlist the help of a guide to get Sedgewick into Spain.

As for the others, 48 of the re-captured POWs, including Bartlett, MacDonald, Cavendish, and Haynes, are executed by the Gestapo and SS after they are told to get out of the truck transporting them and "stretch their legs" in a field - this brings the total of those shot dead to 50 (including Ashley-Pitt and Blythe). Meanwhile, Hendley and Sorren and a small group of others are returned to the oflag. The Senior British Officer, Group Captain Ramsey (James Donald) hears of the massacre of the 50 dead from von Luger, who has been relieved of command and is swiftly driven away by the SS to face the consequences of failing to stop the breakout.

Hilts is brought back alone to the camp, and subsequently to the cooler. His fellow American officer, USAAF 1st Lt Goff, throws him his baseball and glove as he walks into solitary confinement. As the Luftwaffe guard locks him in his cell and walks away, he hears the familiar sound of Hilts bouncing his baseball against the cell walls. The film ends with this scene under the caption "This picture is dedicated to the 50."

The Sand Pebbles: Starring Steve McQueen
In 1926, Machinist's Mate 1st class Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) transfers from the Asiatic Fleet flagship to the Yangtze River Patrol gunboat USS San Pablo (the ship is nicknamed the "Sand Pebbles"). However, life aboard a gunboat is very different from that on a flagship. The gunboat has a labor system — condoned by the officers — wherein coolies do all of the manual work, leaving the sailors free for combat drills and idle bickering. Because he likes to work taking care of the ship's engines, Holman bucks the system. Although he becomes close friends with one seasoned and sensitive seaman, Frenchy (Richard Attenborough), most of the other crewmen see Holman as a Jonah. Holman's desire to work on the engines also antagonizes the ship's coolie laborers whose "rice bowl" (source of income) is derived from doing the work that the sailors would normally do. Holman discovers a defect in the ship's engine that the coolies are aware of but have avoided fixing because it ensures that there is always work for them to do. Holman's insistence on eliminating the defect -- for the betterment of the ship but the detriment of the coolies -- results in the accidental death of one of the coolies.

Holman's friend and protégé, Po-han (Mako), a coolie he has trained to be an engine crew leader, is captured and tortured by a Communist Chinese mob because he works for the Americans. Unable to save him, Holman ends Po-Han's suffering with a fatal rifle shot, further infuriating the anti-American crowd. The San Pablo is stuck in port for the winter and must deal with increasingly hostile crowds surrounding it in numerous smaller boats. This greatly strains the morale of the ship, and the captain fears possible mutiny. Frenchy had saved a Chinese woman, Maily (Emmanuelle Arsan), from prostitution by paying her debts. He marries her and sneaks off the ship regularly during the long winter to visit, but he dies of pneumonia. Right-wing nationalists murder Maily and blame Holman, who was visiting during a regular trip to the U.S. consulate, to try to provoke an incident. When the Chinese demand that Holman be turned over to them is refused, they blockade the San Pablo and the crew almost hands Holman over to the Chinese before the captain restores order. With spring at hand, the Captain decides to risk an attempt to leave, fearing remaining any longer.

The San Pablo escapes the blockade to evacuate idealistic missionary Jameson (Larry Gates) and his school teacher assistant Shirley Eckert (Candice Bergen) from a remote mission up the Yangtze River. To reach them, the sailors have to fight through a boom made up of junks blocking the river. Unfortunately, among the Chinese slain in the fighting is the one who was most sympathetic to Jameson and was keeping the others from harming him. During the rescue, Communist soldiers overrun the mission, killing the missionary and the ship's captain (Richard Crenna) and unintentionally leaving the normally rebellious Holman in command. As he covers the others' escape, he is fatally shot. His final words are, "I was home... What happened? What the hell happened?!"

Re: http://lis311.com/post/85132295

KevinZ — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:32:03 -0000

Wow love, the website came out great. Sorry it took me so long to get on here. Pls email me all the things I need to add to track this. XOXO KZ

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